Fintan O’Toole: Will Brexit end like Emmerdale or Crossroads?If only the scriptwriters could kill off half the cast, or pretend it was all just a bad dreamSat Oct 05 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole on Tim Robinson's Experiments on Reality: Illuminating insight on the material worldBook review: Tim Robinson etches his moments on nature for us in indelible sentencesSat Oct 05 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Boris has destroyed what is left of UK’s credibilityBritish government has broken its own solemn legal and political commitmentsThu Oct 03 2019 - 14:52
Fintan O’Toole: There is a pretence the British union is to be saved at all costsThe British PM declared himself minister for the union – a sure sign it’s in troubleTue Oct 01 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Greta Thunberg is a prophet, preacher, rulebreaker, avenging angelThe climate activist is incapable of blocking out truths the rest of us prefer not to think aboutSat Sept 28 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Michael O’Leary’s golden ticket is for a ride to nowhereRevolt against staggering bonus shows culture of ‘incentives’ running out of roadTue Sept 24 2019 - 08:23
Fintan O’Toole: We must let Boris Johnson declare his geniusA version of the Northern Ireland-only backstop would be a triumph of Irish diplomacySat Sept 21 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s Apple appeal is a disastrous miscalculationGovernment should withdraw the appeal and apologise to our neighboursTue Sept 17 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: For the first time since 1171, Ireland is more powerful than BritainThere is far too much at stake to take any pleasure in this bizarre political reversalSat Sept 14 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: In a world ruled by babies, we have to grow up fastWith adults such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson acting like children in high office, children are providing leadershipTue Sept 10 2019 - 06:00
The vices that led Johnson to power are useless when you have to wield itFintan O’Toole: Johnson’s stock of trust is fatally low, not least in DublinMon Sept 09 2019 - 10:04
British politics this week like the mad scenes in King LearBoris Johnson’s Brexit ploy has always been innately absurdSat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: It is time for a children’s budgetNo Child 2020: Nothing could be more financially prudent than eliminating child povertySat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Welcome to the United Kingdom of AbsurdistanBritain’s democracy is built on feudalism and its unwritten constitution is feebleTue Sept 03 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is not ready for unity but may have to take that stepRegime change may be forced on us but we must handle it with skill and generosityTue Aug 20 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Botched departure from EU should not lead to botched exit from UKIf a united Ireland is on the horizon a decent departure from the UK must be plannedTue Aug 13 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: We must defend our right to share the islandThe unthinkable 20 years ago is becoming ordinary. Our fragile reality must not be destroyedSat Aug 10 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Sinn Féin joins the Great DisruptionThree political groups waiting for a no-deal Brexit, each with an odd vision of aftermathWed Aug 07 2019 - 11:41
Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s howA bold move by Sinn Féin can transform the dynamics of power at WestminsterFri Aug 02 2019 - 15:00
Fintan O’Toole: Let’s abolish culture and call it sportThe day the Ryder Cup was funded by Government, plans for Parnell Square's cultural quarter collapsedTue Jul 30 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Johnson must confront tyranny of factThe PM doesn’t do detail, but the details of Brexit are people's livesSat Jul 27 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Britain’s fate may rest on Boris Johnson’s ability to polish pooWho better than the next British PM to sell a withdrawal agreement tweak as a win?Tue Jul 23 2019 - 14:38
Fintan O’Toole: Eoin Morgan showed England its better selfThe Irish captain of England's triumphant cricket team knocked xenophobia for sixSat Jul 20 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: The 2004 referendum on citizenship was a disgrace to Irish democracyAmendment on citizenship shabbily undermines key provision of 1998 dealTue Jul 16 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: They went to the moon; we discovered the EarthWhat moved me as a child in 1969 wasn’t the moon landing but the dramatic splashdownSat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: A spiffing tale of how Brexit was ‘spaffed’ awayChris Cook’s book paints UK swing to political and administrative incompetenceTue Jul 09 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Too many claims about Irish beef are pure bullIf the Irish beef industry is to fight off competition from Brazil, it has to be more credible in its claims to the moral high groundSat Jul 06 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: The Tory lunatic fringe of 2016 is now at the centreBrexit is, in its own mad way, a version of that great British tradition, heroic failureTue Jul 02 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: ‘Rural Ireland’ has been romanticised up to its neckPiety about rural values never did anything to stop the receding tide of depopulationSat Jun 29 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: There is a gulf between Ireland and England when it comes to EuropeWhy England and Ireland take vastly different approaches to the ContinentTue Jun 25 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Our perjury laws have failed for cultural – not legal – reasonsTough new perjury laws contrast starkly with years of impunity for senior public figuresSat Jun 22 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O'Toole: Boris Johnson is the fool who would play the kingJohnson gets away with unabashed lying because he shifts between joker and politicianTue Jun 18 2019 - 05:00
Was it for this? Fintan O’Toole on the existential questions facing the Abbey TheatreIf the national theatre is not world class or keen on Ireland’s dramatic canon, what is it for?Sat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: Gove's cocaine use may explain his attack on the peace processThe coked-up rant in Michael Gove’s Belfast Agreement pamphlet makes more sense nowTue Jun 11 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump is a hostile, malign presence in EuropeDiplomatic niceties should not blind us to the US president’s aggressive designsSat Jun 08 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Irish blood, English heart – and white skin?Morrissey was once an Anglo-Irish critic of Britishness, but he is now a far-right iconTue Jun 04 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: Maria Bailey and the snapping of the Irish hard neckThe Irish neck is both very soft and as leathery as an equestrian’s undercarriageSat Jun 01 2019 - 14:05
Fintan O’Toole: Election results show angry energy of protest is exhaustedOld political order is in doldrums but disruptive challenge to it is all over placeTue May 28 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: It’s a united Ireland, but not as we know itStar Trek predicted Irish unification in 2024. It’s not inconceivable the series was rightSat May 25 2019 - 11:41
Fintan O’Toole: We must vote for survival of our species on FridayOur MEPs have a dire record on climate change. We must put it at top of EU agendaTue May 21 2019 - 11:34
Fintan O’Toole: Who can beat Trump? Not Joe BidenDemocrats have to excite the small but decisive group who voted for both Trump and ObamaSat May 18 2019 - 11:47
Fintan O’Toole: KPMG hoovers up fees as politicians forget everythingBroadband plan designed by same firm, KPMG, that failed to raise alarm about banksTue May 14 2019 - 08:03
Fintan O’Toole: Everything about Israel is political, even EurovisionIsrael has used the song contest to present itself as a normal European societySat May 11 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: History of Ireland and England deserves better than egregious nonsenseIrish history appears to be a mystery to much of Britain’s intellectual eliteTue May 07 2019 - 09:26
Fintan O’Toole: I am a cis man with cis privilegeTransgender rights are human rights. They don’t require a hierarchy of victimhoodSat May 04 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Gangsters who call themselves the New IRA are calcified clichéSinn Féin no longer accepts the legitimacy of crypto-fascist ‘republicanism’, but it won’t disavow it eitherTue Apr 30 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O’Toole: In today’s Ireland, happiness is a tough gigThe 2019 Sign of the Times survey shows an Ireland more anxious and divided than it seemsSat Apr 27 2019 - 06:00
Fintan O’Toole: Enough shame about the past. What we need is guiltShame at the abuse of children in Irish institutions has achieved nothingTue Apr 23 2019 - 05:00
Fintan O'Toole: We must all learn the art of political dentistryFascism has no safe dose – it is in ordinary conversations that toxic ideas are checkedSat Apr 20 2019 - 06:00
The Scar: An intimate insider account of recovery from mental illnessMary Cregan’s personal history is gripping, but she also interrogates her depressionSat Apr 20 2019 - 06:00
